claudeo
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Re: News: Major Exploit Underway...
Very interesting little video. Looks like when the porn site asked for your country, it was to configure the parasitic dialing out using the modem, probably dialing to one of those super expensive offshore numbers with automatic back charges and astronomical termination costs. This then failed when no modem was found. Someone with a vanilla computer and a modem going to that site would start bleeding some real money within seconds. |
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| not just that, but the PC would also be ready to take part in bot nets for spamming or extortion or phishing. One of those trojans could watch for e-commerce site use and pass back all credit card information typed into forms. Stolen identities both online and offline.
MS should have thought more deeply about Java and the sandbox concept. Whomever was over there that thought it would be cool to let IE do things to your computer at the command of a remote web site, and whomever signed off on that idea, was either nuts, or totally inexperienced. They shipped (and evidently still ship) a trojan writers dream toolbox and guarded it with kittens. |
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